Read parquet metadata with pandas from Google Cloud Storage

Question

I'm able to read a parquet file located on GCS thanks to this answer (read the first answer). I used the pd.read_parquet function, with pyarrow engine. I'd like now to access the parquet metadata without download the data into the dataframe. Is it possible to do that with pandas?

Answer 1

I found a solution, using gcsfs without Pandas:

import pyarrow.parquet as pq
import gcsfs

fs = gcsfs.GCSFileSystem(project=myprojectname)

f = fs.open(myfilepath)
myschema = pq.ParquetFile(f).schema

print(myschema)